Transcendent Thresholds

TRANSCENDENT THRESHOLDS

The convergent program Transcendent Thresholds draws on ways of knowing that understand change as cyclical, porous, and interconnected. Immersive video and sound experiences, sensorial installations, and multi-media artworks trace states of becoming shaped by memory, ritual, and relational ways of knowing.

PROGRAMMING EXHIBITIONS 

Aeon of the Black Sun | Alex Coma | January 24 – March 14, 2026 | Explores the essential truths and enduring resonances of mythologies rooted in ancient feminine archetype — the Goddess Nuit

Naguala | Claudia Medina + Sophia Sanford | January 24 – March 14, 2026 | Naguala is rooted in teachings that go beyond masculine/feminine archetypes, remembering the human as embedded within ongoing transformations and entanglements with macro and micro worlds

EVENTS

Exhibition Celebration | Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 1:00pm | Everyone welcome!

Community Engagement with Alex Coma | Details TBA

The Comox Valley Art Gallery is committed to creating safer spaces where everyone can participate.

All ages are welcome.

CVAG spaces are accessible. Efforts are made to make presented programming contents available to all by using approachable audio and visual technologies to aid in experience and way-finding. Staff are available to answer any questions and to provide orientation to the presentation and gallery spaces.

Programs are barrier-free (no cost). DONATIONS are appreciated and contribute to ongoing community interactive programming.

PUBLIC HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS: we ask that visitors choose not to visit if they are experiencing symptoms of colds and flus.

Hand sanitation dispensers are available at CVAG. Wearing a mask is at the discretion of the visitor.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Comox Valley Art Gallery is grateful to operate on the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks Nation.

Programming is made possible through the support of our FUNDERS: City of Courtenay, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Government of Canada, Province of BC, Comox Valley Regional District, Town of Comox | LOCAL SUPPORT: ABC Printing, Hitec Screen Printing, SD71 Printshop, and Paintbox Painting.

ALEX COMA (Aeon of the Black Sun) thanks Adam Szoke, Debbie Doe and Eve, Pierre Comtois, Carissa, the many extraordinary women in [his] life, and [his] spiritual teachers, Amir Mourad and Lance Speed. Above all, [he thanks] the Goddess Nuit.

CLAUDIA MEDINA and SOPHIA SANFORD created Naguala with the generous assistance of the BC Arts Council.

Exhibitions

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  Aeon of the Black Sun

  Alex Coma depicts a symbolic and conscious ritual of remembering the feminine mysteries associated with the Black Sun...

  January 24 - March 14 2026
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  Naguala

  A video and sound installation by Claudia Medina, with sound composition by Sophia Sanford.

  January 24 - March 14 2026